Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux

Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux (2 August 1740-27 December 1817) was a General of Division of the French Army during the Seven Years' War, the French Revolutionary Wars, and the War in the Vendee.

Biography
Jean Baptiste Camille Canclaux was born in Paris, France on 2 August 1740, and he entered the French Army at the age of sixteen during the Seven Years' War. He joined a cavalry regiment and fought at the Battle of Minden, rising to captain in 1760 after fighting in Hanover. Canclaux became a Brigadier-General in 1788 and a Lieutenant-General in 1792, and he commanded the Army of the Coast of Brest during the War of the Vendee. Canclaux fought against royalist rebels in the Vendee region before leading the Army of the West from 1794 to 1795, and he held interior posts for the rest of the French Revolutionary Wars and under Napoleon I's First French Empire. He was made a Peer of France after the Bourbon Restoration in 1814, but Napoleon kept Canclaux as a peer during the Hundred Days (despite Canclaux not supporting him), leading to him being struck from the list of peers in 1815. On 10 August 1815, he was once more made a peer, and he voted in favor of executing Michel Ney. He died in Paris in 1817 at the age of 77.